Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2004-05 | All Occupations

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Occupations grouped by percentage of part-time employment

VL | L | H | VH

VL

Very low: percentage of part-time employment less than 6.5%

Actuaries
Administrative law judges, adjudicators, and hearing officers
Administrative services managers
Aerospace engineering and operations technicians
Aerospace engineers
Agricultural and food science technicians
Agricultural inspectors
Air traffic controllers
Air transportation workers, all other
Aircraft mechanics and service technicians
Aircraft structure, surfaces, rigging, and systems assemblers
Airfield operations specialists
Ambulance drivers and attendants, except emergency medical technicians
Animal control workers
Arbitrators, mediators, and conciliators
Architects, except landscape and naval
Architects, surveyors, and cartographers, all other
Architectural and civil drafters
Assemblers and fabricators, all other
Atmospheric scientists
Automotive body and related repairers
Automotive service technicians and mechanics
Avionics technicians
Bailiffs
Biomedical engineers
Boilermakers
Brickmasons and blockmasons
Budget analysts
Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists
Cabinetmakers and bench carpenters
Captains, mates, and pilots of water vessels
Cargo and freight agents
Carpenters
Cement masons and concrete finishers
Cementing and gluing machine operators and tenders
Chemical engineers
Chemical equipment operators and tenders
Chemical plant and system operators
Chemical technicians
Chemists
Chief executives
Civil engineering technicians
Civil engineers
Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators
Cleaning, washing, and metal pickling equipment operators and tenders
Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders
Coil winders, tapers, and finishers
Compliance officers, except agriculture, construction, health and safety, and transportation
Computer and information scientists, research
Computer and information systems managers
Computer hardware engineers
Computer programmers
Computer software engineers, applications
Computer software engineers, systems software
Computer specialists, all other
Computer systems analysts
Computer-controlled machine tool operators, metal and plastic
Conservation scientists
Construction and building inspectors
Construction managers
Continuous mining machine operators
Control valve installers and repairers, except mechanical door
Conveyor operators and tenders
Cooling and freezing equipment operators and tenders
Correctional officers and jailers
Cost estimators
Crane and tower operators
Credit analysts
Crushing, grinding, and polishing machine setters, operators, and tenders
Cutters and trimmers, hand
Cutting and slicing machine setters, operators, and tenders
Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
Database administrators
Derrick operators, oil and gas
Detectives and criminal investigators
Drafters, engineering, and mapping technicians, all other
Dredge operators
Drilling and boring machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
Drywall and ceiling tile installers
Earth drillers, except oil and gas
Electrical and electronic engineering technicians
Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers
Electrical and electronic equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers, all other
Electrical and electronics drafters
Electrical and electronics installers and repairers, transportation equipment
Electrical and electronics repairers, commercial and industrial equipment
Electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay
Electrical engineers
Electrical powerline installers and repairers
Electricians
Electro-mechanical technicians
Electromechanical equipment assemblers
Electronic equipment installers and repairers, motor vehicles
Electronics engineers, except computer
Elevator installers and repairers
Eligibility interviewers, government programs
Engine and other machine assemblers
Engineering managers
Engineers, all other
Environmental engineering technicians
Environmental engineers
Excavating and loading machine and dragline operators
Explosives workers, ordnance handling experts, and blasters
Extraction workers, all other
Extruding and drawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
Extruding and forming machine setters, operators, and tenders, synthetic and glass fibers
Extruding, forming, pressing, and compacting machine setters, operators, and tenders
Fabric and apparel patternmakers
Farm equipment mechanics
Fence erectors
Fiberglass laminators and fabricators
Financial managers
Firefighters
First-line supervisors/managers of construction trades and extraction workers
First-line supervisors/managers of correctional officers
First-line supervisors/managers of fire fighting and prevention workers
First-line supervisors/managers of landscaping, lawn service, and groundskeeping workers
First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers
First-line supervisors/managers of non-retail sales workers
First-line supervisors/managers of police and detectives
First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers
First-line supervisors/managers, protective service workers, all other
Fish and game wardens
Fishers and related fishing workers
Foresters
Forging machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
Foundry mold and coremakers
Furnace, kiln, oven, drier, and kettle operators and tenders
Gaming cage workers
Gas compressor and gas pumping station operators
Gas plant operators
General and operations managers
Geological and petroleum technicians
Glaziers
Grinding and polishing workers, hand
Grinding, lapping, polishing, and buffing machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
Hazardous materials removal workers
Health and safety engineers, except mining safety engineers and inspectors
Heat treating equipment setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
Heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics and installers
Highway maintenance workers
Hoist and winch operators
Human resources managers
Industrial engineering technicians
Industrial engineers
Industrial machinery mechanics
Industrial production managers
Industrial truck and tractor operators
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers
Insulation workers
Insurance appraisers, auto damage
Insurance underwriters
Job printers
Judges, magistrate judges, and magistrates
Landscape architects
Lathe and turning machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
Lawyers
Lay-out workers, metal and plastic
Legislators
Loading machine operators, underground mining
Loan counselors
Loan officers
Locomotive engineers and operators
Machinists
Maintenance and repair workers, general
Maintenance workers, machinery
Manufactured building and mobile home installers
Marine engineers and naval architects
Marketing managers
Materials engineers
Materials scientists
Mechanical door repairers
Mechanical drafters
Mechanical engineering technicians
Mechanical engineers
Medical and health services managers
Metal workers and plastic workers, all other
Metal-refining furnace operators and tenders
Meter readers, utilities
Millwrights
Mine cutting and channeling machine operators
Mining and geological engineers, including mining safety engineers
Mining machine operators, all other
Mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders
Mobile heavy equipment mechanics, except engines
Model makers, metal and plastic
Molding, coremaking, and casting machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
Motorboat mechanics
Motorboat operators
Motorcycle mechanics
Multiple machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
Natural sciences managers
Network and computer systems administrators
Nuclear engineers
Nuclear power reactor operators
Numerical tool and process control programmers
Operating engineers and other construction equipment operators
Operations research analysts
Outdoor power equipment and other small engine mechanics
Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders
Painters, transportation equipment
Painting, coating, and decorating workers
Paper goods machine setters, operators, and tenders
Patternmakers, metal and plastic
Paving, surfacing, and tamping equipment operators
Pest control workers
Petroleum engineers
Petroleum pump system operators, refinery operators, and gaugers
Physical scientists, all other
Physicists
Pipelayers
Plant and system operators, all other
Plating and coating machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters
Police and sheriff's patrol officers
Postal service mail sorters, processors, and processing machine operators
Postmasters and mail superintendents
Pourers and casters, metal
Power distributors and dispatchers
Power plant operators
Printing machine operators
Production workers, all other
Public relations managers
Pump operators, except wellhead pumpers
Purchasing agents, except wholesale, retail, and farm products
Purchasing managers
Radio mechanics
Rail-track laying and maintenance equipment operators
Railcar repairers
Railroad brake, signal, and switch operators
Railroad conductors and yardmasters
Refractory materials repairers, except brickmasons
Reinforcing iron and rebar workers
Riggers
Rock splitters, quarry
Rolling machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
Roof bolters, mining
Rotary drill operators, oil and gas
Roustabouts, oil and gas
Sailors and marine oilers
Sales engineers
Sales managers
Sawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, wood
Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents
Security and fire alarm systems installers
Semiconductor processors
Separating, filtering, clarifying, precipitating, and still machine setters, operators and tenders
Septic tank servicers and sewer pipe cleaners
Service unit operators, oil, gas, and mining
Sheet metal workers
Ship engineers
Shoe machine operators and tenders
Signal and track switch repairers
Stationary engineers and boiler operators
Statisticians
Stonemasons
Structural iron and steel workers
Structural metal fabricators and fitters
Supervisors, farming, fishing, and forestry workers
Tank car, truck, and ship loaders
Tapers
Tax examiners, collectors, and revenue agents
Team assemblers
Technical writers
Telecommunications equipment installers and repairers, except line installers
Telecommunications line installers and repairers
Terrazzo workers and finishers
Textile bleaching and dyeing machine operators and tenders
Textile winding, twisting, and drawing out machine setters, operators, and tenders
Tile and marble setters
Timing device assemblers, adjusters, and calibrators
Tire builders
Tool and die makers
Tool grinders, filers, and sharpeners
Transit and railroad police
Transportation inspectors
Transportation, storage, and distribution managers
Water and liquid waste treatment plant and system operators
Water transportation workers, all other
Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers
Welding, soldering, and brazing machine setters, operators, and tenders
Wellhead pumpers

L

Low: percentage of part-time employment 6.5% to 14.7%

Accountants and auditors
Advertising and promotions managers
Advertising sales agents
Agricultural and food scientists
Agricultural engineers
Agricultural equipment operators
Aircraft cargo handling supervisors
Airline pilots, copilots, and flight engineers
Appraisers and assessors of real estate
Archivists, curators, and museum technicians
Athletic trainers
Audio and video equipment technicians
Automotive glass installers and repairers
Bicycle repairers
Bill and account collectors
Bindery workers
Biochemists and biophysicists
Biological scientists, all other
Biological technicians
Bookbinders
Bridge and lock tenders
Broadcast technicians
Brokerage clerks
Business operations specialists, all other
Butchers and meatcutters
Camera and photographic equipment repairers
Carpet installers
Cartographers and photogrammetrists
Chefs and head cooks
Child, family, and school social workers
Clergy
Commercial divers
Commercial pilots
Communications equipment operators, all other
Compensation, benefits, and job analysis specialists
Computer operators
Computer support specialists
Computer, automated teller, and office machine repairers
Construction laborers
Construction trades and related workers, all other
Correspondence clerks
Counselors, social, and religious workers, all other
Court reporters
Court, municipal, and license clerks
Credit authorizers, checkers, and clerks
Dental laboratory technicians
Dispatchers, except police, fire, and ambulance
Driver/sales workers
Economists
Editors
Education administrators, all other
Education administrators, elementary and secondary school
Education administrators, postsecondary
Education administrators, preschool and child care center/program
Educational, vocational, and school counselors
Electric motor, power tool, and related repairers
Electronic home entertainment equipment installers and repairers
Elementary school teachers, except special education
Emergency management specialists
Emergency medical technicians and paramedics
Employment, recruitment, and placement specialists
Environmental scientists and specialists, including health
Epidemiologists
Fabric menders, except garment
Fallers
Farm, ranch, and other agricultural managers
Farming, fishing, and forestry workers, all other
Farmworkers and laborers, crop, nursery, and greenhouse
Farmworkers, farm and ranch animals
Financial analysts
Financial examiners
Financial specialists, all other
Financial, information, and record clerks, all other
Fire inspectors
First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving workers
First-line supervisors/managers of helpers, laborers, and material movers, hand
First-line supervisors/managers of housekeeping and janitorial workers
First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers
First-line supervisors/managers of transportation and material moving machine and vehicle operators
Floor layers, except carpet, wood, and hard tiles
Floor sanders and finishers
Food service managers
Forest and conservation workers
Funeral directors
Furniture finishers
Gaming managers
Geoscientists, except hydrologists and geographers
Graders and sorters, agricultural products
Health educators
Health practitioners and technical workers, all other
Helpers — brickmasons, blockmasons, stonemasons, and tile and marble setters
Helpers — carpenters
Helpers — construction trades, all other
Helpers — electricians
Helpers — extraction workers
Helpers — painters, paperhangers, plasterers, and stucco masons
Helpers — pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters
Helpers — roofers
Home appliance repairers
Hydrologists
Installation, maintenance, and repair workers, all other
Insurance claims and policy processing clerks
Insurance sales agents
Jewelers and precious stone and metal workers
Law clerks
Legal and related workers, all other
Life scientists, all other
Loan interviewers and clerks
Locksmiths and safe repairers
Lodging managers
Log graders and scalers
Logging equipment operators
Machine feeders and offbearers
Management analysts
Managers, all other
Market research analysts
Marriage and family therapists
Material moving workers, all other
Mathematicians
Meat, poultry, and fish cutters and trimmers
Medical and public health social workers
Medical appliance technicians
Medical equipment repairers
Medical scientists, except epidemiologists
Meeting and convention planners
Mental health and substance abuse social workers
Mental health counselors
Microbiologists
Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education
Milling and planing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
Miscellaneous mathematical science occupations
Model makers, wood
Molders, shapers, and casters, except metal and plastic
Musical instrument repairers and tuners
Network systems and data communications analysts
News analysts, reporters and correspondents
Nuclear technicians
Occupational health and safety specialists and technicians
Ophthalmic laboratory technicians
Orthotists and prosthetists
Painters, construction and maintenance
Paperhangers
Paralegals and legal assistants
Parking enforcement workers
Parts salespersons
Patternmakers, wood
Payroll and timekeeping clerks
Personal financial advisors
Physicians and surgeons
Pile-driver operators
Plasterers and stucco masons
Police, fire, and ambulance dispatchers
Postal service clerks
Postal service mail carriers
Precision instrument and equipment repairers, all other
Prepress technicians and workers
Printing workers, all other
Private detectives and investigators
Probation officers and correctional treatment specialists
Procurement clerks
Producers and directors
Production, planning, and expediting clerks
Public relations specialists
Purchasing agents and buyers, farm products
Radiation therapists
Radio operators
Recreational vehicle service technicians
Refuse and recyclable material collectors
Rehabilitation counselors
Roofers
Sales and related workers, all other
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products
Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education
Segmental pavers
Sewing machine operators
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks
Shoe and leather workers and repairers
Shuttle car operators
Slaughterers and meat packers
Social and community service managers
Social and human service assistants
Sociologists
Sound engineering technicians
Special education teachers
Statistical assistants
Substance abuse and behavioral disorder counselors
Subway, streetcar operators and all other rail transportation workers
Survey researchers
Surveying and mapping technicians
Surveyors
Textile cutting machine setters, operators, and tenders
Textile knitting and weaving machine setters, operators, and tenders
Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers, all other
Tire repairers and changers
Title examiners, abstractors, and searchers
Traffic technicians
Training and development specialists
Transportation workers, all other
Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer
Upholsterers
Urban and regional planners
Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers, all other
Veterinarians
Vocational education teachers, middle school
Vocational education teachers, secondary school
Watch repairers
Weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers, recordkeeping
Woodworkers, all other
Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing
Zoologists and wildlife biologists

H

High: percentage of part-time employment 14.8% to 25.6%

Agents and business managers of artists, performers, and athletes
Animal breeders
Animal trainers
Anthropologists and archeologists
Art and design workers, all other
Art directors
Audio-visual collections specialists
Audiologists
Baggage porters and bellhops
Bakers
Barbers
Billing and posting clerks and machine operators
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance workers, all other
Camera operators, television, video, and motion picture
Cardiovascular technologists and technicians
Chiropractors
Cleaners of vehicles and equipment
Coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers
Commercial and industrial designers
Concierges
Customer service representatives
Data entry keyers
Dentists
Desktop publishers
Diagnostic medical sonographers
Dietetic technicians
Dietitians and nutritionists
Entertainers and performers, sports and related workers, all other
Environmental science and protection technicians, including health
Etchers and engravers
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants
Farm and home management advisors
Farmers and ranchers
Fashion designers
Film and video editors
Fine artists, including painters, sculptors, and illustrators
First-line supervisors/managers of personal service workers
Floral designers
Food and tobacco roasting, baking, and drying machine operators and tenders
Food batchmakers
Food cooking machine operators and tenders
Food processing workers, all other
Forensic science technicians
Forest and conservation technicians
Gaming and sports book writers and runners
Gaming dealers
Gaming supervisors
Gaming surveillance officers and gaming investigators
Geographers
Graphic designers
Health diagnosing and treating practitioners, all other
Healthcare support workers, all other
Helpers — installation, maintenance, and repair workers
Helpers — production workers
Historians
Home health aides
Human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping
Hunters and trappers
Instructional coordinators
Interior designers
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners
Kindergarten teachers, except special education
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand
Landscaping and groundskeeping workers
Laundry and dry-cleaning workers
Legal secretaries
Librarians
Library, museum, training, and other education workers, all other
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses
Life, physical, and social science technicians, all other
Mail clerks and mail machine operators, except postal service
Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers, all other
Medical and clinical laboratory technicians
Medical and clinical laboratory technologists
Medical assistants
Medical equipment preparers
Medical records and health information technicians
Medical secretaries
Medical transcriptionists
Merchandise displayers and window trimmers
Motion picture projectionists
Multi-media artists and animators
New-accounts clerks
Nuclear medicine technologists
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants
Occupational therapist aides
Occupational therapist assistants
Office machine operators, except computer
Opticians, dispensing
Optometrists
Order clerks
Packers and packagers, hand
Pesticide handlers, sprayers, and applicators, vegetation
Pharmacists
Pharmacy aides
Pharmacy technicians
Photographers
Photographic process workers
Photographic processing machine operators
Physical therapist aides
Physical therapist assistants
Physical therapists
Physician assistants
Podiatrists
Political scientists
Preschool teachers, except special education
Pressers, textile, garment, and related materials
Proofreaders and copy markers
Property, real estate, and community association managers
Psychiatric aides
Psychiatric technicians
Radiologic technologists and technicians
Real estate brokers
Real estate sales agents
Registered nurses
Reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks
Residential advisors
Respiratory therapists
Respiratory therapy technicians
Secretaries, administrative assistants, and other office support workers, all other
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive
Security guards
Service station attendants
Set and exhibit designers
Sewers, hand
Slot key persons
Social scientists and related workers, all other
Stock clerks and order fillers
Surgical technologists
Switchboard operators, including answering service
Tailors, dressmakers, and custom sewers
Tax preparers
Taxi drivers and chauffeurs
Telephone operators
Travel agents
Tree trimmers and pruners
Truck drivers, light or delivery services
Veterinary assistants and laboratory animal caretakers
Veterinary technologists and technicians
Wholesale and retail buyers, except farm products
Word processors and typists
Writers and authors

VH

Very high: percentage of part-time employment greater than 25.6%

Actors
Adult literacy, remedial education, and GED teachers and instructors
Amusement and recreation attendants
Announcers
Athletes and sports competitors
Bartenders
Bus drivers, school
Bus drivers, transit and intercity
Cashiers, except gaming
Childcare workers
Choreographers
Clinical, counseling, and school psychologists
Coaches and scouts
Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food
Cooks, fast food
Cooks, institution and cafeteria
Cooks, private household
Cooks, restaurant
Cooks, short order
Costume attendants
Counter and rental clerks
Counter attendants, cafeteria, food concession, and coffee shop
Couriers and Messengers
Crossing guards
Dancers
Demonstrators and product promoters
Dental assistants
Dental hygienists
Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers
Directors, religious activities and education
Dishwashers
Door-to-door sales workers, news and street vendors, and related workers
Embalmers
File clerks
Fitness trainers and aerobics instructors
Flight attendants
Food preparation and serving related workers, all other
Food preparation workers
Food servers, nonrestaurant
Funeral attendants
Gaming change persons and booth cashiers
Gaming service workers, all other
Hairdressers, hairstylists, and cosmetologists
Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop
Hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks
Industrial-organizational psychologists
Interpreters and translators
Interviewers, except eligibility and loan
Library assistants, clerical
Library technicians
Locker room, coatroom, and dressing room attendants
Maids and housekeeping cleaners
Makeup artists, theatrical and performance
Manicurists and pedicurists
Massage therapists
Media and communication equipment workers, all other
Media and communication workers, all other
Models
Motor vehicle operators, all other
Music directors and composers
Musicians and singers
Nonfarm animal caretakers
Occupational therapists
Office clerks, general
Parking lot attendants
Personal and home care aides
Personal care and service workers, all other
Postsecondary teachers
Protective service workers, all other
Receptionists and information clerks
Recreation workers
Recreational therapists
Retail salespersons
Self-enrichment education teachers
Shampooers
Skin care specialists
Speech-language pathologists
Teacher assistants
Teachers, primary, secondary, and adult, all other
Telemarketers
Tellers
Tour guides and escorts
Transportation attendants, except flight attendants and baggage porters
Travel guides
Umpires, referees, and other sports officials
Ushers, lobby attendants, and ticket takers
Waiters and waitresses